CALIOPOLIS

I am so excited to make this post. Here’s the press release. Cambridge, MA – Today at the 17th annual CALI Conference on Law School Computing, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) proudly announced a new partnership to stimulate innovation in […]

What does the new website, Avvo, which rates lawyers and CALI Awards have to do with each other? Read on… A new website, Avvo (shortened "avvocato" which is italian for lawyer) purports to rank lawyers based on objective algorithmic evidence… "…scores are calculated using a mathematical model, all lawyers arejudged by the same standards. The […]

The Internet Bar Organization is sponsoring a contest for law students (and other qualified grads) where the prize if all expenses paid to Hong Kong to attend the International Online Dispute Resolution GroupForum in Hong Kong. Dan Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services at the National Mediation Board says… …The InternetBar.org […]

The Free Software Foundation is doing research (look under April 12, 2007 New Flash) on when the term "Intellectual Property" first started to be used and as part of that research they are asking folks to send them copies of the pages in old (1970’s-80’s) course catalogs where the term was first used in a […]

Social Software or Web 2.0 are buzz phrases much overused and ill-defined these days, but I ran across an explanation by Gene Smith that helps to evaluate social software/web 2.0 websites. Here are Gene’s definitions… Identity – a way of uniquely identifying people in the system Presence – a way of knowing who is online, […]

An interesting article at the SocialText wiki blog got to me to thinking about the post-blog/wiki-web, when these blogs and wikis and tags and RSS feeds are not artifacts in themselves, but are embedded into …. everything else. The two common themes I find to measure all applications of the read/write web … by which […]

I recently ran across a new blog that discusses current copyright issues and the most recent post is a real head-banger. As the Executive Director of CALI, I find myself dealing with copyright issues all of the time. We run a pretty tight ship and have spent a lot of effort and money to make […]

Put this blog post under thinking out loud. I have been watching the rise of YouTube and Flickr and other media sharing and social software/networking sites and I always wonder what kind of educational angle there is (it’s my job) and I think I see where it’s headed. I was reading about Yale’s grant from […]

Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center and also Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University struck it rich recently. Rich in the sense that he got his latest article, "The Generative Internet" published on Groklaw where that large, voracious and didactic community tore into it in all sorts of interesting ways. I confess to […]

A month back, I pointed to videos of sentencing hearingsposted on YouTube by the judge in the case. Most of the cases seemed tobe drug-related. These videos were a little thin on content, but Iasked the question "Is this legal education"? Lawyer, Allison Margolin has posted a video that is part marketing,part public information and […]